Zbirka: Britanska in irska zgodovina
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My East End(2000) O'NEILL, GILDALondon's East End is a place that is at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. This title traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, and jellied eels.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
If Walls Could Talk(2012) WORSLEY, LUCYWhy, for centuries, did people fear fruit?All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home. Through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed, inVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Wars of the Roses(2009) LANDER, J RThe dynastic struggles of the Wars of the Roses (1455-85) have traditionally been portrayed as belonging to one of the most dramatic periods in the history of England, an age of murder and melodrama.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Triumph and Tragedy(2005) CHURCHILL, WINSTONWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Their Finest Hour(2005) CHURCHILL, WINSTONWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field(2014) SADLER, JOHN* Graphic new account of the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses * Reconstructs the fighting in vivid detail * Insight into the rival commanders Edward IV and the Duke of Somerset * Incorporates the results of recent archaeological research * Sets tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Stonehenge(2009) HILL, ROSEMARYStonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. This title provides wide-ranging history of the megalithic structure, froVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Perilous Question(2014) FRASER, LADY ANTONIAFrom beloved historian Antonia Fraser, the two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Plimsoll Sensation(2007) JONES, NICOLETTEThe story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
That Sweet Enemy(2007) TOMBS, ISABELLE,TOMBS, ROBERTTheir rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India in the eighteenth century, in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is still shapinVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Heaven's Command(2012) MORRIS, JANTells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Farewell the Trumpets(2012) MORRIS, JANFarewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pax Britannica(2012) MORRIS, JANThe second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Isabella(2012) WEIR, ALISONDescribed by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Empire of the Deep(2014) WILSON, BENThe bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland(2011)This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.Vezava: Mehka49,42 € -
Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain(2008) PATERSON, MICHAELFrom the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Diana Mosley(2004) DE COURCY, ANNEDiana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and scandaVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Brief History of Britain 1485-1660(2011) HUTTON, PROFESSOR RONALDA fresh look at the Tudors and Stuarts by one of Britain's leading historians of the period.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1940s Childhood(2014) MARSH, JAMESA nostalgic look at life growing up in the 1940sVezava: Mehka15,41 €
